Tuesday, February 23, 2010

So have you peeked yet, did you see the new kit? Sorry for leaving you hanging, sometimes I get a little extra ADH

D and forget to come back. So here you go:

Isn’t this just the neatest kit you’ve seen in a while? I know it is for me. I love love the colors, everything about this kit is so fun!

I will be back with more from this kit soon! I just love it, I’m thinking of some other uses for it other than layouts too, you know a little something to get myself organized with, but I’m gonna leave you hanging with that one. Till then I hope you’re having a good day and we’ll talk again soon!

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

So if anyone has been reading this you’ll know my Dear Father-In-Law passed a year ago. It’s been a long tough year. I go back and forth in my emotions about it. Most days are pretty mellow, I miss him but I can manage. And then there are days I cry at everything. Well this month’s challenge at Good Grief was to tell a story without photos. (These are not my first layouts for Good Grief Challenges about Dad.) And I had the perfect kit for it. Marta van Eck’s Don Quijote. (Please note: I’m not on her CT, sometimes I do scrap with kits that are not CT requirements.) It’s a lovely but odd kit with beautiful flowers and moody dark backgrounds, but it’s the windmills that sold me on this kit for this project. Dad always called my DMIL his “little dutchmen” why it wasn’t dutch girl I’ll never understand, but anyway I’m getting off point. So with the windmill and the beautiful flowers which I thought at first were tulips, but are in fact poppies I created a sweet tribute that I could get some emotions out and accurately portray my feeling with. And the horses, horses always make me think of Dad.

Journaling says: Dear Dad, A year has slipped by since you left us so suddenly. I can't tell you how much I miss you, because I have never felt like this before. It often hits me out of seemingly nowhere. Somedays it does not hurt to remember, but most days it does. Somedays I hate you for that, and then I get mad at myself for that. There is nothing to hate you for, you would not have left if you had been given the choice. You worked your whole life, day after tiring day, rarely complaining, crappy farmers wages. But you made sure Mom would be taken care of. I just wish I had appreciated you more when I had the chance, and that is just a shame, I miss you so much.

I like this challenge because I’m in a phase right now of writing letters I have no intention of sending. It’s a nice outlet for my emotions. I can express those feelings we were told all our lives that nice girls shouldn’t feel or dare speak about and it helps me through a lot of things.

Monday, February 15, 2010

Happy President’s Day everyone! I know, not a greeting you get much is it? I got to work with Trixie Scraps – Hot For Teacher. It’s a collab with simply.scraps and it’s so much fun.

I immediately loved it because it has my high school’s colors in it and my mind went to work. Thinking of all the ways I could document my high school memories. Unfortunately I can’t seem to find many of my pics from high school. Maybe my mom has the negatives in a box somewhere? Gotta put that on my list of things to ask her about. But luckily I have made up (in a way) with the subject and he posted some old photos on his Facebook page.

So this layout is very personal, it’s not the complete story of course only a few of us need to know all the details, but someday when my memory is completely gone, this will be enough. ;o)

This is one of those times when you think back and how high school might not have been that bad… (sigh). Those summer nights of youth, to be that confident again.

My second layout, I thought were perfect colors of my boys on their first day of school this year. I remember my mom took our picture the first day of school for years. I’m not sure when it stopped, probably when we were old enough to get ourselves up and out the door after she’d left for work. So is the life of a single mom, but I’m sure that was in my high school years.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

I can finally tell you the secret I’ve been holding on to for what seems like forever now!!! Scrapper’s Delights has opened her own store! And she’s opening TODAY!!! With all kinds of great sales and freebies. Make sure to sign up for her new newsletter while you are there for more goodies.

And I’m also very excited to tell you not only does she have the store but a new forum also!!! And we have been working hard to set up some super fun challenges for you. I jumped on to run a few challenges and I can’t wait for you to see them. So please come by and say hi, maybe join us in a challenge or two. SD wants us to build a fun place to hang out and learn from each other. And as a bonus we’ve come up with a super point system for the challenges, it’ll be super quick to build up points and earn coupons to use on SD’s super cute kits. So please come check us out. I look forward to seeing you!

I can finally tell you the secret I’ve been holding on to for what seems like forever now!!! Scrapper’s Delights has opened her own store! And she’s opening TODAY!!! With all kinds of great sales and freebies. Make sure to sign up for her new newsletter while you are there for more goodies.

And I’m also very excited to tell you not only does she have the store but a new forum also!!! And we have been working hard to set up some super fun challenges for you. I jumped on to run a few challenges and I can’t wait for you to see them. So please come by and say hi, maybe join us in a challenge or two. SD wants us to build a fun place to hang out and learn from each other. And as a bonus we’ve come up with a super point system for the challenges, it’ll be super quick to build up points and earn coupons to use on SD’s super cute kits. So please come check us out. I look forward to seeing you!

Thursday, February 11, 2010

I can’t say much now, the others are close and might hear me typing so I’ll make it fast… I wanted to let ya’ll in on the secret…

Something big is happening with Scrapper’s Delights… I’ve been sworn to secrecy but I know you’ll want to keep your eyes peeled for the news when it hits….for now I can give you this scrap… I smuggled it out before the guards noticed it…..

I can’t say much now, the others are close and might hear me typing so I’ll make it fast… I wanted to let ya’ll in on the secret…

Something big is happening with Scrapper’s Delights… I’ve been sworn to secrecy but I know you’ll want to keep your eyes peeled for the news when it hits….for now I can give you this scrap… I smuggled it out before the guards noticed it…..